Soylent Green or Silent Green Up to You?#3
You can adapt some simple habits and actions that will reduce the amount of fuel that you burn in your car, and as always helping the planet can help your pocket remain greener with the folding stuff.
Sexy Tires? Tire Inflation is so un-sexy but improper inflation can lead to 10% more fuel being used needlessly to go the exact same distance and improper inflation also causes the tires to wear out faster, which results in even more wasted energy to manufacture new tires that you pay for.
Buy a tire gauge and test the air pressure when the tires are warmed up.
Accelerate & Coast Accelerate slowly and give the car a chance to gather momentum, and then on the other side anticipate areas where you will need to brake and get off the gas sooner and coast more.
Drive normal for a week and record how much gas you use, then drive conservative and note the difference, and also while your at it see how much longer your trip doesn't take, the numbers will surprise you.
Use the Terrain Use the terrain for many you will have hills around and slip it in to neutral on hills; you will be using the brakes if the hills are steep enough, where before you were using gas to maintain a slower speed.
On one of my circuits the trip was 5 miles in each direction.
I coasted 1 mile in each direction saving me and the planet every day! Put Your Car On a Diet! Lose some weight from the car, many people use their trunks as storage areas, clean it out and keep only the minimum like emergency equipment, keeping the grill, the charcoal, picnic basket and the volleyball net doesn't really make sense in winter time, the sad part is that unlike the dog, You or they don't get any benefit from the travel.
Do you need to bring the whole bag of rock salt, how about 5 pounds and leave the other 15 pounds in the garage? Drive with a ¼ to half a tank of gas rather than filling up, fuel weighs 6 pounds a gallon.
To test this pick up 10 gallons of gas at the closest gas station to your house and carry it home, kind of heavy? Of course the best way to save fuel in your car is to leave it in park.
Walking or biking will keep you felling better, and around longer to enjoy the nice clean planet we can have if we all start today, to do more to use less!
Sexy Tires? Tire Inflation is so un-sexy but improper inflation can lead to 10% more fuel being used needlessly to go the exact same distance and improper inflation also causes the tires to wear out faster, which results in even more wasted energy to manufacture new tires that you pay for.
Buy a tire gauge and test the air pressure when the tires are warmed up.
Accelerate & Coast Accelerate slowly and give the car a chance to gather momentum, and then on the other side anticipate areas where you will need to brake and get off the gas sooner and coast more.
Drive normal for a week and record how much gas you use, then drive conservative and note the difference, and also while your at it see how much longer your trip doesn't take, the numbers will surprise you.
Use the Terrain Use the terrain for many you will have hills around and slip it in to neutral on hills; you will be using the brakes if the hills are steep enough, where before you were using gas to maintain a slower speed.
On one of my circuits the trip was 5 miles in each direction.
I coasted 1 mile in each direction saving me and the planet every day! Put Your Car On a Diet! Lose some weight from the car, many people use their trunks as storage areas, clean it out and keep only the minimum like emergency equipment, keeping the grill, the charcoal, picnic basket and the volleyball net doesn't really make sense in winter time, the sad part is that unlike the dog, You or they don't get any benefit from the travel.
Do you need to bring the whole bag of rock salt, how about 5 pounds and leave the other 15 pounds in the garage? Drive with a ¼ to half a tank of gas rather than filling up, fuel weighs 6 pounds a gallon.
To test this pick up 10 gallons of gas at the closest gas station to your house and carry it home, kind of heavy? Of course the best way to save fuel in your car is to leave it in park.
Walking or biking will keep you felling better, and around longer to enjoy the nice clean planet we can have if we all start today, to do more to use less!
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